Price family papers, 1772-1875.

Abstract: Price family of Mecklenburg County, N.C., and Fayette and Giles counties, Tenn., where several members of the family moved to settle and where many of them owned land. Primarily business and financial papers, with some family letters, of several generations of the Price family. Papers are mainly those of Isaac Price, Isaac Price Jr., and Isaac Jasper Price, and deal with farming, estate settlement, lands and property, medical services, settlement in Tennessee, the Steele Creek Church in Mecklenburg County, and family matters.

Repository: Southern Historical Collection

Collection Highlights: Included in are mentions of slaves bought, sold, and bequeathed (1792-1854). Includes a 1792 agreement between Isaac Price and Thomas Green about an enslaved (man/woman? Name?)